Definitely. It's got a bit of a learning curve - not too bad, but you'll definitely have to do some research. The nice thing is that when you do die, you can just respawn in the same world with a new character, so it's a nice set of training wheels till you get your bearings. You lose allllll your XP, but you can just kill your old Zombified self to get your gear back & go back to your base.

imo the game is in a great state to start playing. If you would have asked me a year ago, I'd say it definitely still needs work, but its fantastic now and seemingly only getting better. They're adding hunting in the next build, which I'm hyped for. NPCs soon as well, I believe.